Tracking endangered Mountain Gorillas

Tracking Mountain Gorillas is an experience of a lifetime. The mountain Gorillas is known to occur in mainly in two populations, the Volcanoes population boosting Rwanda safaris and the Bwindi populations contributing to Uganda gorilla safaris as well as Uganda tours. The tracking experience will begin at 8:30am with a briefing and then off for the experience. The guide, tracker and ranger normally accompanied the adventurers. Tracking can take three to eight hours and often takes people through think jungle. The mountain gorillas is the world’s most endangered ape found only in small portions of protected afromontane forests in southwestern Uganda, northwestern Rwanda and eastern Congo. The mountain gorillas are one of many species unique to these forests. The forests are also home to many wonderful birds, primates, large mammals, reptiles, insects and plants. They also ensure continued water and medicinal plant resources for the local communities.

Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has been blessed with more than half of the global estimated population of 780 mountain gorillas making the country more popular than the rest. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is situated in south-western Uganda, on the edge of the western rift valley( Albertine rift) and is shared by Kanungu, Kabale and Kisoro Districts. It is 331 square kilometers in size and on the altitude range of 1,160 meters to 2,607 meters. The annual average temperatures range from 7C°-20C°with the coldest period being June and July.  Bwindi Impenetrable National Park borders Congo and is UNESCO World Heritage site. The park boasts over 326 mountain gorillas, the largest of all Ape species in the world. Bwindi Impenetrable national park is the only forest in Africa in which both Gorillas and Chimpanzees live together. The number of Bwindi chimpanzee population size is unidentified but estimated at 350-400. The forests where the mountain gorillas live are often cloudy, misty and cold. One can even wonder how th ey survive in such habitat and thus no wonder that their population has been increasing for some time instead decreasing.

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